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No. 599,318. Patented Feb. 22.1898.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,318, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed March 25, 1896. Serial No, 584,769. (No model.)

To all whom zit may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPHER O. DENNY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tekama, in the county of Burt and State of Nebraska,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Automatic Watering- Troughs; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the in vention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has reference to improvements in automatic watering-troughs; and it consists, essentially, in an improved and novel provision for permitting the water to escape from the valve-box into the open portion of the trough without allowing any floating matter or sediment in the latter to enter the valveboX to interfere with the operation of the mechanism therein or to collect in any degree within said valve-boX.

I attain the aforesaid object by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which I Figure 1 is a perspective of a trough embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detail of my improved partition between the valve-box and the open portion of the trough. Fig. 3 is a detail of the same with a portion of the vertical conduit over the opening in said partition removed.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in each view.

Inasmuch as the general form and mode of operation of the several types of automatic watering-troughs are Well known, and my invention, with slight and obvious changes, is equally applicable to all of them, I do not deem it necessary to show or describe the en tire structure or its operation further than to render intelligible the construction, location, and operation of my said invention.

The value and function of my improvements being not at all contingent on any special mode of automatic admission of water to the valve-box, I do not show or describe any mechanism for the intermittent admission of Water within said valve-box, because any of the well-known modes of regulating such admission may be successfully employed in connection with my invention.

Referring to Fig. 1, A is the entire trough, consisting of the valve-chamber B at one end and the open or uncovered compartment 0, from which the stock drink.

D is the usual inlet through which the water is admitted from a reservoir or tank into the interior of the valve-chamber B. The latter chamber is provided with the usual float, through the medium of which, and that of any of the Well-known devices for closing and opening said inlet 1), the admission of the water is automatically regulated by the stage of water in said valve-chamber.

The valve-chamber B is covered suitably and therefore entirely inclosed, so as to pro tect the mechanism therein from the stock. IIeretofore it has been the custom to admit the water to fiow from the Valve-chamber B into the compartment C under and around the partition which partially separated the valve-chamber B from the compartment 0. The difficulty experienced with this construction has been that the sediment which unavoidably collects in the compartment 0 in the use of the latter by stock, and particularly by hogs, worked through into the valveboX B under said partition and eventually interfered with and destroyed the operation of the float therein, and thereby rendered ineffectual the entire automatic feature. Attempts have been made to avoid this objection heretofore by locating the passage for the water through said partition a slight distance above the base of the latter; but while this in a measure prevented the sediment in compartment C gravitating into the Valve-box B refuse matter floating in the part 0 could pass through said opening into the part B to interfere with the action of the mechanism therein or clog such opening more or less, and thereby shut off the ready flow of the water from B to O as the water in the latter would be depleted by the stock drinking therefrom.

In my invention I provide an opening E at a point in the partition F, which divides the valve-chamber B from the drinking-compartment 0, at about the lowest descent of the float in said valve-chamber. Over the opening E and against the side of the partitionF next to compartment 0, I have placed the hood. G, being closed at the top and sides by being suitably fastened to the partition F, but providing a Vertical opening or conduit from the opening E down the side of the partition F, with its exit near the bottom of the compartment 0. I accomplish this very simply by forming a semicircular ridge" in the central portion of the hood G, which extends from the opening E at its upper end to its exit H at its lower end. The hood G prevents the sediment in the compartment 0 from working into the opening E and also eX- cludes any floating material in said compartment from said opening E, whatever may be the height of the water in the trough A. The sides and lower edge of the partition F are seated in the trough A against the sides and bottom of the latter and held in place by suitable ways J J, formed on the interior of said trough on each side of the locality of said partition.

States, is"

l. The combination, with a wateringtrough, provided with a Water-inlet, of a perforated partition, a cover for the end of the trough provided with the inlet, a mud-guard adjacent to the partition in the open end of the trough, and a conduit leading from the perforation in the partition to a point below the top of the mud-guard, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination,with a trough,provided with a water-inlet and a perforated partition, of a cover over the end of the trough provided with the inlet, a hood upon the side of the partition in the open end of the trough, said hood being closed at its top and sides and provided along its central portion with a semicircular ridge, whereby a conduit is formed from the perforation nearly to the bottom of the trough, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHRISTOPHER C. DENNY. 

